2007 Articles

The Financial Services Authority today published its proposals for the regulation of firms selling travel insurance along with a holiday. Such products, known as 'connected travel insurance', or CTI, will be regulated from 2009.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have criticised EU anti-terror laws for violating basic human rights. The Parliament passed a resolution condemning EU bodies and member states for passing laws which undermine rights to privacy or fair trials....

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will secure Britain's first criminal convictions for price-fixing if, as expected, three men who pleaded guilty in a Houston court this week travel to London to repeat their plea in the UK.

Amazon has been stripped of a shopping system patent, just weeks after it was forced to shrink the scope of its famous 'one click' patent. The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked an Amazon patent on a gift ordering system.

Company chief executives are ignorant of rules about the storing of electronic information despite the fact that they will pay the penalty for failures to preserve information as evidence in disputes, according to an industry survey.